Palin Says Obama Brushes off Reform Concerns

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2008 file photo, shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Palin abruptly announced...

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2008 file photo, shows Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Palin abruptly announced Friday, July 3, 2009. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday Aug. 7, 2009 in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia,File)

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claims President Barack Obama is making light of concerns over what she has called "death panels" determining or denying care in the Democratic health care proposal.

Palin makes the claim in a Facebook posting Wednesday evening.

Obama on Tuesday said the Democratic health care legislation would not create "death panels" to deny care to frail seniors — or "basically pull the plug on grandma because we decided that it's too expensive to let her live anymore," as the president put it.

Rather, Obama contends the provision that led to such talk would only authorize Medicare to pay doctors for counseling patients about end-of-life care if they want it.

But Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, says the provision reads otherwise and will lead to health care rationing.

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